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Mac Forum / General / Networking / March 2005share internet connection Mac and PC
can anyone tell me a simple way to do this for a young friend. main computer has a wifi receiver , win 98, wifi receiver is usb. older mac with OS 9 or 8 if need be. mac has a ethernet port but no PCI. want to share internet with Mac. how can this be doe simply and relatively inexpensively ? > can anyone tell me a simple way to do this for a young friend. > main computer has a wifi receiver , win 98, wifi receiver is usb. > older mac with OS 9 or 8 if need be. > mac has a ethernet port but no PCI. > want to share internet with Mac. > how can this be doe simply and relatively inexpensively ? Get a router with ethernet and WiFi.  SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** > can anyone tell me a simple way to do this for a young friend. > main computer has a wifi receiver , win 98, wifi receiver is usb. > older mac with OS 9 or 8 if need be. > mac has a ethernet port but no PCI. > want to share internet with Mac. > how can this be doe simply and relatively inexpensively ? It's not clear from your post whether the PC is connected directly to the internet or whether it's using a wireless router that's already set up. If there's not already a wireless router, get one, along with a wireless ethernet bridge, such as the Linksys WET11, for the Mac. SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart Toyota Prius fans: Check out alt.autos.toyota.prius trying to do this on the cheap for a youg friend. Mac is an older Mac that is a gift. Win 98 PC is remote by wireless. (actually a USB wireless adapter.) Mac does not have a PCI slot nor USB. The Mac does have ethernet connector. so PC is wireless. NIC card of the both computers are free. If a router is attached to the ethernet card (NIC) of the PC ( which has the wireless PC connection) will it share the internet connection with the Mac ? trying not to use a bridge for cost reasons. thank you > trying to do this on the cheap for a youg friend. > Mac is an older Mac that is a gift. [quoted text clipped - 8 lines] > with the Mac ? > trying not to use a bridge for cost reasons. This is all very confusing. Let's start at the beginning. What type of internet access are we talking about in the first place? I take it it's DSL or cable and the PC is accessing it by WiFi. Is this correct? I also take it that there's already a WiFi router. Is also correct? If so, can you just connect an ethernet cable between the router and Mac? SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart Toyota Prius fans: Check out alt.autos.toyota.prius > trying to do this on the cheap for a youg friend. > Mac is an older Mac that is a gift. [quoted text clipped - 5 lines] > NIC card of the both computers are free. > If a router is attached to the ethernet card (NIC) of the PC ( which What ethernet card? I thought you said that the PC has wireless, not ethernet. Does it have both? > has the wireless PC connection) will it share the internet connection > with the Mac ? Win98 might have built-in ICS -- I'm not sure whether that was first bundled in Win98 or Win2K. You're probably better off asking in a Windows newsgroup. > trying not to use a bridge for cost reasons. You already have a router, so why don't you just connect the Mac to one of its Ethernet ports? Maybe if you showed a diagram of the network I'd be less confused. SignatureBarry Margolin, barmar@alum.mit.edu Arlington, MA *** PLEASE post questions in newsgroups, not directly to me *** > Maybe if you showed a diagram of the network I'd be less confused. I second that emotion! SignatureMike Rosenberg <http://www.macconsult.com> Macintosh consulting services for NE Florida <http://bogart-tribute.net> Tribute to Humphrey Bogart Toyota Prius fans: Check out alt.autos.toyota.prius > trying to do this on the cheap for a youg friend. > Mac is an older Mac that is a gift. [quoted text clipped - 10 lines] > > thank you Please explain, slowly, clearly, the following: 1 how is the Windows machine connected to the Internet? 2 how is the Windows machine connected to the local network? 3 how is the Mac connected to the Internet? 4 how is the Mac connected to the local network? 5 is there a wireless router? 6 is there a wired router? 7 what kind of Internet connection is available? 8 how many machines, in total, are you talking about here? We don't know what you're using. SignatureWe are Microsoft of Borg. You will be assimilated. Stability is irrelevant. Where _you_ want to go to today is irrelevant. We will add your currency to our own. Bend over right now. Resistance is futile. |
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